Standing Strong |
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Isaiah 11:6 2 Thessalonians 2:15 |
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Foreshadowing the Messiah |
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This week I will explore the foreshadowing of the work of Messiah as shown in the Akeidah. The Akeidah is actually said each morning in Shachrit services and parallels actions to be taken many years later. Let’s look at the parallels of the two events of substitutional sacrifice. Abraham is told to take his son, his only son, whom he loves. Yeshua is said to be G-d’s only begotten son.
G-d declares him to be dead as an offering even though it is through this son all the world will be blessed. For three days he travels with the assumption to be dead until he is then redeemed. Yeshua is said to be dead for three days until the resurrection.
The son carries the wood upon which he will be sacrificed to the place of the execution. The place of sacrifice is on Mount Zion where Jerusalem will be built.
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Yeshua carries the wood upon which he is bound and nailed to where he will be sacrificed.
Abraham takes a knife. Judas has a connection to a knife by his surname, Iscariot. Researchers believe this is a form of the title sicarii, meaning "dagger-men," a group of ultra-Zealots who carried a knife with them at all times to be prepared to assassinate traitors and capitulators. The Sicarii used stealth tactics to obtain their objective. Under their cloaks they concealed sicae, or small daggers, from which they received their name. Literally, Sicarii meant "dagger-men". The knife was the planned tool to bring death.
G-d supplies the ram in place of the Son. How unnatural is this instance in which the ram is supplied. I have spoken with many a shepherd and not one has ever seen a ram caught in a thorny thicket by its horns. G-d supplies His Son in place of the Passover lamb and has a crown (thicket) of thorns placed around his head. G-d states the blessing upon Abraham by Himself, not contingent upon man’s actions but based upon his faith. The Messiah’s intervening sacrifice for salvation is not contingent on actions of man but only by G-d. All we have to say is B’seder. All we have to do is accept.
Even with this declaration of the blessing of G-d sworn only by Himself, Abraham is called to walk in compliance with Torah as are we.
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